Talk about misplaced priorities, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear's proposed budget cuts $286 million from the 2012-13 state budget including a 6.4% cut to the higher education system and, due to this years low population growth estimate, in effect cuts of $50 million to the funding formula for grades K-12. However, there will be no cut to the $43 million in tax breaks granted to the builders of the Bible themed Ark Encounter amusment park nor to the $11 million to improve the highway interchange near the park.Link

Since when are tax breaks to a privately owned amusement park featuring a 500 foot by 75 foot replica of Noah's Ark more important than the education of the state's children?

"The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it." -- Thomas Paine: Rights of Man (1791)

But, The Creation Museum is only 40 miles away and they even have a dinosaur kids can ride. Can't they get their education there and save the state money?

"The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it." -- Thomas Paine: Rights of Man (1791)

My guess is that they're hoping the park will serve as a tourist trap, and that as such the state will be able to reap additional taxes (both sales and other) from the various tourists that pass on through.

My guess is that they're hoping the park will serve as a tourist trap, and that as such the state will be able to reap additional taxes (both sales and other) from the various tourists that pass on through.

This sort of thing- tax breaks and incentives for developers- is the norm.

This case has garnered attention only because- well, the development in question is so...unique.

Anyhow, these guys are pikers. Here in NJ we've got this development project underway called Xanadu, sort of an amusement park/shopping mall- with tax breaks north of $200 million. Like we don't have enough malls already in the state?

This sort of thing- tax breaks and incentives for developers- is the norm.

This case has garnered attention only because- well, the development in question is so...unique.

Anyhow, these guys are pikers. Here in NJ we've got this development project underway called Xanadu, sort of an amusement park/shopping mall- with tax breaks north of $200 million. Like we don't have enough malls already in the state?